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No. 227,527. Patented May 11,1880.

NPEYERS. FHQTO-LITNOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D, C.

' Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a portion thereof.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS HEIMANN, OF NEW YORK, AND MICHAEL T. WALL, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

H'AT AND OTHER HEAD-COVERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,527, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed April 7, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JULIUS HEIMANN, residing at New York, county and State of New York, and MICHAEL T. WALL, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, both citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hats and other Head-Coverings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to obtain a head-covering having the appearance of furbeaver not onlyto the eye, but also to the touch.

It consists in a head-covering made integral of two layers of fabric, plush-napped onboth surfaces, united by a suitable adhesive substance and pressed into shape.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a hat, in side view, embodying the invention.

Fig. 3 shows a portion of one of the layers of fabric.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the crown, and B the brim, of a hat, made integral of two layers, 1) c, of canton-flannel or other fabric, having two plushvnapped surfaces.

In carrying out our invention, the fabric 1) or c is woven or knitted, and the nap is raised on the two surfaces thereof in any usual or suitable manner. The two layers of fabric are then united by a suitable adhesive substance, and thereupon pressed into the desired shape by a suitable die.

It is common to make a head-covering of (N0 model.)

two layers of fabric plush-napped on one side only, as ordinary cantonflannel, and such is shown in reissued Patent No. 8,972, November 18, 1879, and is hereby disclaimed. The article produced in this manner, and as shown in aforesaid reissued patent, however, lacks the thickness and softness of fur-beaver, which it is designed to imitate, whereas by the doublenapped fabric 1) c we obtain a head-covering of superior body or thickness, together with superior softness or pliability, and one resembling as nearly as possible an article made of fur-beaver. This is due to the two napped surfaces, which are brought within or between the webs of the two united layers of fabric 1) c and inasmuch as said two napped surfaces are brought into intimate contact with each other by the pressure to which the whole is subjected in the die, another important advantage is thereby gainednamely, a strong union between the two layers of fabric;

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An imitation fur-beaver head-coverin g made integral of two layers of fabric plush-napped on both surfaces, united by a suitable adhesive substance and pressed into shape, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

. JULIUS HEIMANN.

MICHAEL T. WALL.

Witnesses ZALMON PEENNOCK, J. HERMANN WAHLERS. 

